MEDIA AND NOW AND THEN

WHAT IS MEDIA

- describes any channel of

communication. This can include
anything from printed paper to digital
data, and encompasses art, news,
educational content and numerous
other forms of information.
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People discover fire, developed paper from

plants, and forge weapon and tools with
stone, bronze, copper, and iron.
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Papyrus - was only used in Egypt, but by about 1000

BC people all over West Asia began buying papyrus from
Egypt and using it, since it was much more convenient
than clay tablets
Cave Paintings - encompasses any parietal art which
involves the application of color pigments on the walls, floors
or ceilings of ancient rock shelters.
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Printing Press / Wood Blocks - is a technique for

printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East
Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of
printing on textiles and later paper.
Clay and Tablets - were used as a writing medium,
especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze
Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were
imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of
reed
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- is a period of history that encompasses the changes in

economic and social organization that began around
1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries,
characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools
with power-driven machines such as the power loom
and the steam engine, and by the concentration of
industry in large establishments.
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Typewriter - is a mechanical or electromechanical machine

for writing characters similar to those produced by printer’s
movable type.
Telephone - is a telecommunications device that permits
two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are
too far apart to be heard directly.
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Photography - history of film technology traces the

development of film technology from the initial development of
“moving pictures” at the end of 19th century to the present time.
Telegraph - requires that the method used for encoding the
message be known to both sender and receiver. Many methods
are designed according to the limits of the signalling medium used.
The use of smoke signals, beacons, reflected light signals, and flag
semaphore signals
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The invention of the transistor ushered in the

electronic age. People harnessed the power of
transistors that led to the transistor radio,
electronic circuit, and the early computers.
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Radio -is the technology of signaling

or communicating using radio waves. They are
generated by an electronic device called a
transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates
the waves, and received by a radio receiver
connected to another antenna.
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Television -is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting

moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three
dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a
television program, or the medium of television transmission.
Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment and
news.
Satelite -that relays and amplifies radio telecommunications
signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel
between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations
on Earth.
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-are any media that are encoded in machine-

readable formats. Digital media can be created,
viewed, distributed, modified and preserved on
digital electronics devices.
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Internet - is the global system of interconnected computer

networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices
worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of
private, public, academic, business, and government networks
of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic,
wireless, and optical networking technologies.